Pieter Abbeel | |
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| Born | Antwerp, Belgium |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (PhD) KU Leuven (MS) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep reinforcement learning, robotics, unsupervised learning |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Covariant.AI |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrew Ng |
| Doctoral students | Chelsea Finn |
Pieter Abbeel is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences,[1] Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab,[2] and co-director of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR)[3] Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the co-founder of covariant.ai,[4][5][6][7][8] a venture-funded start-up that aims to teach robots new, complex skills, and co-founder of Gradescope,[9] an online grading system that has been implemented in over 500 universities nationwide. He is best known for his cutting-edge research in robotics and machine learning, particularly in deep reinforcement learning. In 2021, he joined AIX Ventures[10] as an Investment Partner. AIX Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in artificial intelligence startups.
- ^ "UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences".
- ^ "UC Berkeley Robot Learning Lab".
- ^ "Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab".
- ^ Ackerman, Evan (November 8, 2017). "AI Startup Embodied Intelligence Wants Robots to Learn From Humans in Virtual Reality". IEEE Spectrum.
- ^ Knight, Will (November 7, 2017). "These AI Hotshots Plan to Reboot Manufacturing by Jumping Inside Robots". MIT Technology Review.
- ^ Metz, Cade (November 6, 2017). "A.I. Researchers Leave Elon Musk Lab to Begin Robotics Start-Up". The New York Times.
- ^ Simon, Matt (November 7, 2017). "Want to Really Teach a Robot? Command It With VR". WIRED.
- ^ "Covariant.AI".
- ^ "Gradescope".
- ^ "AIX Ventures - An AI Fund". AIX Ventures. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
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